Great Writing Conference, 2009

Well, it was exhausting and nerve-wracking, but I gave my first presentation amongst actual professionals in my field today. I barely got the presentation done in time – isn’t that always the case – and ...

Did Somebody Offer a Challenge?

Bruce Sterling over at Wired.com posted eighteen of them for Contemporary Literature. It’s a skeletal overview: a list of statements without background or exploration of any. I’d like to offer a few brief thoughts on ...

I Had To Do It. Really

One of my supervisors is a big champion of the free and open source. To you, I offer my apologies. I tried. I really did. I got to know GIMP well enough to actually use ...

Muwah-ha-ha-ha…the Labyrinth of the Mind!!!

We all toss around the word ‘interdisciplinary’ like it’s a good thing. “We’re an interdisciplinary department”, “I’m doing interdisciplinary research”, blah blah blah. But when it comes down to it, we often just mean we’ll ...

Retreating to Write

One week. Seven glorious days. The equivalent, for me, of a snow-in. I got s**t done, people. My husband signed up to attend a conference in Erice, Sicily for a week in the end of ...